The Laziest Entrepreneur Ever
True story.
Let me ask you something.
Do you consider yourself an Entrepreneur?
Well, do you?
If you said yes, why?
Did you start a business?
As you pushing that business to grow?
What if I asked you….. how many hours do you put into that business?
In the world of affiliate marketing and content creation, it’s very common for people to refer to themselves a Entrepreneurs. I consider myself a content creator and income-stream maker, a small business owner, but not really an entrepreneur.
So, just what is an entrepreneur, really?
According to Oxford, it is defined as “a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.”
According to the BDC:
“An entrepreneur is someone who starts or owns a business. Whether it’s in farming, retail, manufacturing or in the service sector, entrepreneurs are businesspeople who find their success by taking risks. In their pursuits, they often become disruptors in established industries”
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Technically, I do run a business.
Several of them.
But, I’m not at all the poster-child of an Entrepreneur.
If you looked at my work ethics and overall orientation/mission, you’d never know it. My internal axiomatic psychological landscape is pretty anti-hero.
Most entrepreneurs work their asses off.
They have big ideas and want to change the world.
I’m doing all of this, literally everything, precisely so that I do not have to work. Maybe leading by example and writing about it will change someone’s life, and hopefully it does, but truly, I’m not here to change the world, and have less than zero desire to be a leader of men.
Entpreneurs and I, We are not the same.
My success has a variable considered that you wont find in many entrepreneur’s value set.
Some see a great business idea — and with tenacity, passion, resolve, they task themselves with making a successful business out of it by any means necessary, even if that means working 80 hours per week.
I now vet all opportunities according through this metric:
How much TIME do I have to exchange for this MONEY?
If the answer is a full work week, or even a 20 hour part time workweek, I drop it and let someone else jump on it.
And then, is there a way to automate that and trade LESS TIME for that same MONEY?
If I evaluate an opportunity and can determine that the amount of work required to build it, will also be required to sustain it, then that opportunity is for someone else.
Some entrepreneurs and affiliate marketers speak of creating an “exit plan”, which is the idea that you plan to hand off your business, sell it, or find a way to remove yourself from the labor part of the equation.
I don’t like exit plans. They don’t always pan out.
No need for an exit plan if you build it from the ground up to require as little of your attention as possible.
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I carefully choose things, or design things, that are being made to serve ME every bit as much as my customers.
And what do I want?
To not be obligated to show up 40 hours per week, for anyone, anywhere.
It’s totally possible to accomplish a business that provides a valuable service, or a product, and streamline your online implementation in such a way that it takes very minimal attention to keep running.
I still work and love to make things; woodwork, 3d print projects, building things and selling them, etc — but because I own my time, there are no deadlines. I make the deadlines, and that reality exists because I enforce it.
My chatbots field 99% of pre sales questions, and every now and then a message makes it to me.
Because I feel that an entrepreneur in the truest sense starts with the question “what problem can I solve”, and in the solving of that problem, they are willing to engage ALL of their time, I cannot consider myself an Entrepreneur.
I start with the question “Does it require my time and attention so often that I cannot decide to hike the Pacific Crest Trail on a whim, with no notice, for several months, and my income isn’t even slightly disrupted and no one is angry and charging back on my payment processor?”
Yeah, my question doesn’t even consider if I am solving a problem or providing value.
Yes, I aim to do that, but if doing that happens at the expense of my TIME, nope, I’m out.
“Our goal isn’t to create a business that is as large as possible, but rather a business that bothers us as little as possible.” -Tim Ferriss.
Peace out, My Little Brussel Sprouts!
Thank you for reading!
Until next time….
Onward and Upward Everybody!
-Chris
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You have a very interesting perspective. I never thought about it the way you explained it. I guess I should really consider what it is I actually want and how best to go about achieving it through automation. Working hard initially I believe is necessary but other than that things should be relatively easy to maintain once put into place.